Final Ratings: ESPN Sees Best Boxing Audience Since '06; Subway Series Up In N.Y.

ESPN’s telecast of Saturday’s Bermane Stiverne-Chris Arreola World Heavyweight Championship averaged 940,000 viewers, making it the most-watched boxing match on any ESPN network since Aug. 4, 2006, when the Jose Soto-Anthony Peterson bout averaged 1.01 million viewers on ESPN2….YES Network averaged a 4.54 local rating in N.Y. for Monday’s Mets-Yankees game, its most-viewed telecast of the season. It also was the most-viewed and highest-rated Subway Series game on a N.Y. RSN since July 3, 2011 (THE DAILY).

The charts below list final ratings from recent sports telecasts. Figures for ABC were unavailable at presstime.

TELECAST

DATE

NET

TIME (ET)

RATING

VIEWERS
(000)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: 5-Hour Energy 400 (Kansas)

5/10

Fox

8:23-11:33pm

3.5

5,755

NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Heat-Nets: Game 3

5/10

ABC

8:11-11:00pm

3.5

5,590

PGA Tour: The Players Championship: Final Round*

5/11

NBC

2:00-8:15pm

2.1

3,000

PGA Tour: The Players Championship: Third Round

5/10

NBC

2:00-7:00pm

1.7

2,500

Pro Bull Riding: Last Cowboy Standing

5/11

CBS

4:00-6:00pm

0.8

1,146

Liga MX: Santos Laguna-Pachuca

5/10

UniMas

8:54-11:05pm

0.6

1,059

EPL: Manchester City-West Ham United

5/11

NBC

10:00am-12:00pm

0.5

679

Major League Fishing: Challenge Cup Championships

5/11

CBS

3:00-4:00pm

0.4

518

"EPL Goal Zone"

5/11

NBC

12:00-2:00pm

0.4

502

TELECAST

DATE

NET

TIME (ET)

RATING

VIEWERS
(000)

NFL Draft: Round 1

5/8

ESPN

8:00-11:49pm

6.1

9,943

NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Clippers-Thunder: Game 2

5/7

TNT

9;47pm-12:38am

4.0

6,188

NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Clippers-Thunder: Game 1

5/5

TNT

9:42pm-12:19am

3.5

5,435

NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Thunder-Clippers: Game 3

5/9

ESPN

10:36pm-1:29am

3.2

4,906

NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Spurs-Trail Blazers: Game 1

5/6

TNT

9:27pm-12:17am

3.1

4,807

NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Pacers-Wizards: Game 4

5/11

TNT

8:00-10:52pm

2.9

4,501

NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Heat-Nets: Game 1

5/6

TNT

7:00-9:27pm

2.9

4,484

NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Wizards-Pacers: Game 2

5/7

TNT

7:00-9:47pm

2.7

3,974

NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Wizards-Pacers: Game 1

5/5

TNT

7:00-9:42pm

2.5

3,651

NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Spurs-Trail Blazers: Game 2

5/8

ESPN2

9:39pm-12:08am

2.2

3,352

NOTE: * = The Players Championship had a 90-minute rain delay during the final round.